With their awards-contending animated short The Opposites Game, filmmakers Lisa LaBracio and Anna Samo faced the challenge of bringing a compelling visual representation to a brief yet powerful poe…
faced the challenge of bringing a compelling visual representation to a brief yet powerful poem by Brendan Constantine—a poem they considered perfect.
Teaching in New York for over a decade, LaBracio had two reactions when she first read Constantine’s poem. “One, in which I’m laughing, because I recognize these kinds of scenarios in a classroom, this idea of starting a lesson and not having any idea where it will go, and in the end, the students teaching you something,” she explains. “But also, [I was] obviously struck by it in a tougher way, because I work in a lot of communities in the city that deal with gun violence in their lives.
Inspired by a line from Emily Dickinson referenced in Constantine’s poem—“My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”—Samo walked into a bookstore and left with “this really thick compilation of her poetry,” she says, pursuing the impulse to “do some sketches inside of the book.” Ultimately, the pair ended up reading all of Dickenson’s poems as they went through the process of whiting the pages out. “I’ve actually been an Emily Dickinson fan since I was very young, but I’ve never read all of her poetry en masse. You know, you don’t do that. You read a poem at a time. So, then sitting there with 770 pages of Emily Dickinson, you’re alternating between life, flowers, life, life, death, death, death, death, bees, death,” LaBracio jokes.
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